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ReviewFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Conflicting Issues of Sustainable Consumption and Food Safety: Risky Consumer Behaviors in Reducing Food Waste and Plastic Packaging.

Gyula Kasza, Nina Veflen, Joachim Scholderer, Lars Münter, László Fekete, Eszter Zita Csenki, Annamária Dorkó, Dávid Szakos, Tekla Izsó

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In one paragraph

Review in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Gyula KaszaNational Food Chain Safety Office, Department of Risk Prevention and Education, 1024 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-3120-2820
Nina VeflenDepartment of Consumer and Sensory Sciences, Nofima, NO-1431 Ås, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-1456-7900
Joachim ScholdererDepartment of Informatics and Sustainability Research, University of Zurich, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
Lars MünterRådet for Bedre Hygiejne, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
László FeketeHungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary.
Eszter Zita CsenkiNational Food Chain Safety Office, Department of Risk Prevention and Education, 1024 Budapest, Hungary.
Annamária DorkóNational Food Chain Safety Office, Department of Risk Prevention and Education, 1024 Budapest, Hungary.
Dávid SzakosUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, 1078 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-0280-0090
Tekla IzsóNational Food Chain Safety Office, Department of Risk Prevention and Education, 1024 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-1444-8098
National Food Chain Safety Office · HUBI Norwegian Business School · NOMagyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem · HUUniversity of Veterinary Medicine · HUUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

Horizon 2020 project SafeConsume 727580Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai János Research FellowshipNew National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology Bolyai+ Fellowship (ÚNKP-21-5)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food-related consumer decisions have an impact on the environment. However, trending patterns of sustainable consumption often pose a challenge for food-safety authorities: these initiatives may unintentionally compromise food safety. The objective of this review is to support public agencies in the integration of sustainability issues into food-safety risk communication schemes. Environmentally conscious but risky behaviors aimed at the reduction of food waste and plastic packaging were chosen for discussion and scrutinized based on expert opinions. Those expert opinions clearly indicated that a significant part of environmentally conscious behaviors, such as removing mold, eating expired perishable food, overstoring leftovers, avoiding single-use plastic packaging even when cross-contamination is a threat, and using reusable bags without cleaning for a long time, often contribute to food-safety risks. Short, easy-to-remember messages were collected for each recognized risky behavior; they concentrated on prevention or providing an alternative that was still environmentally sensible but kept food-safety risks low (such as planning ahead to avoid leftovers, freezing leftovers in time, and sanitizing reusable bags). The identified challenges and solutions might encourage authorities to rethink their risk-communication practices and integrate a sustainability aspect in them.

Indexed as

consumer behaviorfood-safety conflictsfood-safety messagefood wasteplastic packagingrisk communication

Identifiers

PMID36360133
PMCPMC9655145
OpenAlexW4308532062

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